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Recreating Popular User-Generated Tags Effectively and Efficiently by Utilizing Crowdsourcing

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The purpose of the study is to determine whether popular internet bookmarking tags can be recreated through crowdsourcing. Amazon Mechanical Turk, the work marketplace, was used as a means to conduct an experiment regarding the reproduction of popular tags for a variety of websites using Delicious, a service for storing and sharing
bookmarked pages on the internet.

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This study provides a promising new direction for cheap, fast and effective creation of user-generated tags that would be useful in indexing more of the extended web and consequently help improve web search. Furthermore, it informs future experimental and micro-task design for creating high quality tags reliably using crowdsourcing platforms.

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Crowdsourcing.org, an initiative by massolution®

Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely
to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space,
Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.